What if you had to choose between family and the love of your life? Abbey and Money Singh are better known as The Modern Singhs, Kiwi social media celebrities with a rich and tangled love story to tell.
Shared through the eyes of this inspiring duo, The Modern Singhs reveals their experiences as migrants to New Zealand as they struggled to find footing in new surroundings. They describe how they met and pursued a relationship that was forbidden by Money's culture, where he felt he had to choose between his family and the love of his life. The couple opens up about the difficult birth of their son, their journeys with mental health, a complicated sense of home, and what it's like to raise bilingual children across three cultures.
The rest is history – or at least uploaded to YouTube, where Abbey and Money's joyful outlook and celebration of tradition unites 1.3 million viewers from all over the world, encouraging others to embrace difference with open hearts.
About the Authors:
Abbey and Money Singh are The Modern Singhs, a social-media celebrity couple
based in Auckland. In 2019 a video of their traditional Punjabi wedding went
viral on YouTube, and they started their channel, called The Modern Singhs,
which quickly gained 1.3 million subscribers. Creating joyful videos is now the
couple's full-time job, with a mission to celebrate love, culture and bringing
families together. They live on the North Shore with their two children.
